Badass Celestial Emperor Returns!

(6) Body Tempering Pill

For half an hour running around the hunting area, Zi Yingjun had a good harvest. Mostly were low tier elixirs which is not even equal to one spirit crystal. Though it was low in quality, the low tier elixirs can be refined for a better one. None in Zi Clan know that every elixirs can be refined. Of course, to alleviate the quality of an elixir, one needs a unique method. Zi Yingjun can use his divine sense and turn it into a flame that can remove the impurities of the elixir. Its effect can double or even triple if properly handled!

Zi Yingjun have almost a hundred low tier elixirs which is equivalent to four spirit crystals if all of them are refined. He is not satisfied with it since every rank in every realm needs more resources. If he enters second rank, he should at least have tens of spirit crystals.

"I only have an hour of time limit to hunt here everyday. Tsk, its too short." he lamented. Zi Yingjun kept moving about, hopping to the branches when he notice a familiar aura. "Is it... Ren Xieye Grass?"

Zi Yingjun stepped down and spreads his divine sense that ranges up to fifty meters. His cultivation is too weak for now. If it were his current level in his previous life, his divine sense can reach up to five li (5 li = 2 kilometers and 500 meters). Furthermore, one use of divine sense is to materialize weapons and refining flames. However, given his strength in the first rank, its impossible for him to do that. For now, he can only use it as a scouting method and refining.

"Ren Xieye Grass are just medicines for mortals in circulating blood for todays era. After two hundred years, Ye Royal Family discovered its real use as the material for creating Body Tempering Pill which is five times stronger than normal Body Tempering Pills. Heh, it's fortunate I found some." Zi Yingjun rushed to a certain direction until he arrived in front of a treeless valley. It was full of red colored grass that when the wind blew, the valley looked like a sea of blood. That is why the herbs are called Ren (human) Xieye (blood) Grass.

"This...." he cant help but take a sharp breath. He thought of a bright idea. He can make some Body Tempering pills and sell it to the caravans coming this year and earn a fortune! In todays era, they are still ignorant of Ren Xieye Grass' real use and considered it as a useless weed. If he can reap all of this and refine pills, it'll be enough for him to be as rich as a middle-scale force!

Zi Yingjun scanned his surroundings first to see if there are anyone around. Since it's only him who dared to enter the hunting ground, it was secured. He mobilized his qi and used his divine sense to turn into a flame. A dim blue fire sat atop his palm, floating obediently.

"This should be enough. Tempering Flame that came from divine sense is already the weakest. Sigh, if only Im in the Foundation Building, I can upgrade it to the second level, Devouring Flame. The effect would be stronger that even low tier pills can become a high tier ones. For now, I can only mobilize it this much." he bitterly smiled. Squatting down, Zi Yingjun lightly placed the whole fireball into the edge of the grassy valley. The blue flame immediately scattered and covered the entire area. It looked beautiful and gentle but Zi Yingjun knew better that the blue flame he released is not ordinary and it can cause heavy injuries.

It only took five minutes for the twenty meter squared area to become desolate. The red grasses have disappeared and only a land of darkened soil is left. There are countless red pearly objects laying around, some have the color of black. Zi Yingjun quickly moved. He took out the last bag he brought and filled it.

The black pills were left behind, it was a poison. Zi Yingjun used up almost all of the time left in order to remove the failures, one third of the Body Tempering pills were no longer edible. The bag he is using is almost full, at least, he gained more benefits than the loss. With these pills, his physical strength and body will be tempered. Even if he is only at the Qi Refinement Stage, he can use a soul core already!

Normally, cultivators in the Foundation Building Stage can fuse with a beast's soul. The reason for it is because of their physical built. If the body is not strong enough, they will receive a serious drawback. With the pills Zi Yingjun refined, he can use half of it then his own body will be tempered and it can be on par with a Foundation Building cultivator's physical build.

As for the excess, he can sell it to the merchant's caravan arriving this Summer. It was still in the middle of the Spring though so he wont rush. Zi Yingjun arrived in the dorm without meeting anyone. The hunting ground were free for students to enter and exit. However, only those who are in the third rank would dare. The demon and spirit beasts inside are at the same level of Qi Refinement cultivators ranging from second to seventh rank.

Beasts are a lot stronger than humans but their weakness is cognition. Although one can avoid them, it is still risky. Zi Yingjun is the only student who entered the hunting ground in the first rank of Qi Refinement Stage. The guards who saw him enter before thought he is stupid, not even them would have the courage to enter it!

Fortunately, Zi Yingjun still have his divine sense for scouting and returned alive, unscathed on top of that. Though the guards finds it weird, they have no rites to ask questions to the young masters of Zi Clan.

Zi Yingjun sat cross-legged on his bed before consuming a Body Tempering Pill. He concentrated his dantian and started to fuse the pill with his qi, circulating them all over his eight meridians. The rest of that night, he refined all pills to strengthen his body.